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    Tosser is a British insult for a person you think is stupid, useless or unpleasant. "He's such a tosser." "Some tosser parked across my gate." You must know what is underneath it. Tosser comes from a rude slang meaning of "toss" that refers to — so tosser literally calls someone a masturbator, in the same way that the stronger British insult "wanker" does. Native speakers do not usually think about that meaning when they say it; it has worn down into a general word for an idiot. But it IS there, and that is why the word is rude rather than merely . On the British scale of insults it sits in the middle: rougher than "idiot" or "twit", softer than "wanker". You will hear it in pubs, in football crowds, in British TV dramas, from friends teasing each other, and from strangers who are genuinely angry. It is almost always used about men. It is British and Irish, and to some extent Australian. Americans mostly do not use it and may not recognise it at all. Grammar is simple: countable noun, plural tossers, used with "a" or "such a" — "a complete tosser", "an absolute tosser". I am telling you all this because you will meet the word, not because I want you to use it. Knowing why an insult is rude is part of knowing English properly — and knowing where a word sits on the scale is what keeps you from causing more offence than you meant.

    混蛋、白痴(英式粗俗罵人的話)。源自「打手槍」的粗話,所以算髒話等級,比 idiot 重、比 wanker 輕,通常用來罵男生。看得懂就好,自己少用。

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組成toss + -er, the ending that means "a person who does this". Here toss carries its rude British slang sense of masturbating, so the word literally means "one who tosses" in that sense.

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原始詞典資料4 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

tossernoun

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    One who tosses or throws something.

    • He had difficulty in locating the plate and when he did so one of his outfielders had a merry chase following the leather from the bat of a company tosser.
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    vulgarderogatoryslangA person who masturbates.

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    offensivederogatoryslangAn objectionable person, often somewhat obnoxious in demeanour.

    • That bloke who ripped me off was a right tosser.
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    computingengineeringmathematicsA program that forwards or redirects messages on a bulletin board system.

    • Does anyone have a mail tosser that will work with The Major BBS V6.2?
    • FIDOGATE is a Fido-Internet gateway and a Fido tosser.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。